First off, let’s get a few facts straight: It walks albeit with heavy steps, which is quite obvious, considering the fact that it has ankles of metal and feet of acrylic and rubber. It needs an external power bank to power the Arduino Nano R3 due to power supply fluctuations.

About a month back, I was asked whether I would like to give a talk at TEDxPanaji. Needless to say, I jumped right into this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! After several weeks of preparation, revisions, rehearsals at 91Springboard and hard work, the efforts of over a hundred spirited individuals culminated yesterday at

And what part would I have in anything of even remotely related to commerce and economics? More than I expected! It wasn’t until I attended this event (as a member of the Sharada Mandir School delegation) that I realised what an integral component economics plays in our lives. The “Economics=Money”

Getting Started In A World of Robotics is a presentation which I have given on multiple occasions as a speaker for Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with Information Technology). Its purpose is to introduce students to the basics of hobby robotics and to inculcate a ‘how-stuff-works’ attitude towards new technology in as simple a

Rexplorer v2 is a fully autonomous self-mapping robot to be used for indoor purposes. My original intention was to develop a robot which could map an unknown area and relay the data to a monitoring system so as to provide real-time feedback about the layout of external environment. I ended

I returned from Bangalore a week back, after making a few long overdue visits. To Inventrom: After almost a year and a half, I met my mentor, Mr. Pranav Pai Vernekar (Founder-Inventrom) and had a chance to see the latest version of Inventrom’s flagship product: the Bolt 2 Internet Of Things platform.

”Tis the season!’, or rather, ”Twas the season!’ I recently started tinkering around with a servo motor (my Christmas present) and decided to put it to use on our tree. As you might have figured out, it’s a smartphone-tilt-sensitive star, sitting atop the tree on a servo motor. When the phone

For the first time, I’ve built a fully functional robot with my trusty Raspberry Pi 2. My last attempt at connecting a motor driver to a Pi resulted in a burnt pi; but that was because I connected its 5v output to the driver’s 5v output pin (recipe for disaster). Rexplorer is

Last week, I attended a training programme at KUKA Robotics Pune from the 2nd to 4th of May. During the programme I learn’t how to jog and master the axes, calibrate the various co-ordinate systems and tools, calibrate it for different payloads and supplementary loads and also some basic logic programming. The trip to